According to Lunar Calendar and Chinese astrology, the world has entered into Rabbit year starting from this spring (立春 in Chinese), that’s today, February 4th, 2011. As a memento of the year, I made some bunny sachets. I filled them with silica gel (in bead form) and turn them into desiccant bags for my metal notions stored in the glass bottles. The silica bead will help in controlling the humidity in the glass bottle, hence to protect the metal from oxidation and degradation.
This project is ideal if you have a lot of fabric scraps that you want to de-stash. It is quick and easy to sew, I am able to complete a dozen of them within hours including taking photos for all the steps.
This bunny sachet pattern is not confined only as a desiccant bag, you can fill it with other ingredients and turn it into a personal amenity, for example:
1. Scented sachet, if filled with Potpourri (a great gift for this coming Valentines)
2. Sleep pillow, if filled with dried chamomile & lavender flowers in a bigger bunny poly-fill (perfect as a baby shower gift)
3. Heat bag, if filled with rice or wheat and herbs which to be heated up in a microwave oven (for medical purpose)
4. Shoe freshener, if filled with activated carbon or charcoal (as shown below, best use in summer)
Bunny Sachet Sewing Pattern
Pattern: Download bunny pattern in pdf format.
Material:
1. Fabric or scraps (2 1/4″ x 3″ – 2 pcs. for mini bunny, 4 1/2″ x 6″ – 2 pcs. for large bunny)
2. Sachet filling ingredient – silica bead, activated charcoal, or scented potpourri, etc.
3. Ribbon, lace, yarn or cord
4. Fusible web (for large bunny)
5. Embroidery floss (for large bunny)
Tools:
1. Sewing machine
2. Sewing kits
3. Iron
4. Printer & letter size paper
5. Pencil or fabric marker
6. Blunt point tweezers
Download the bunny pattern in pdf format. Print it out onto Letter size paper. Don’t scale the printing if you wish to have the full-size pattern.
Get the latest Acrobat pdf reader if you can’t download the pattern.
Cut the paper pattern and trace it on the wrong side of your chosen fabric.
Mark a minimum 1″ opening on the side seam.
Start from one of the opening markings, sew along the sewing line and end at another opening marking.
Trim the seam allowance to 1/8″ for the mini bunny, 3/8″ for the large bunny.
Clip and notch at the curves on the seam.
Insert the blunt tweezers from the opening and grab one of the ears.
Pull the ear out through the opening.
Repeat the same to the other ear. Use the tweezers to adjust the seam and smooth the curvature.
Turn the face and smooth all the curvatures. Press with a warm iron to smooth crumples.
For large bunny, trace bunny’s face to the fusible web (paper side), cut out and iron the adhesive side to the wrong side of the face fabric.
Peel off the paper from the fusible web. Embroidery the facial features.
Cut fabric. With adhesive side down, iron the face onto the large bunny.
Roll a piece of paper into a cone, cut at the sharp point to make a funnel mouth. Insert the mouth into the opening. Fill the bunny with your chosen ingredient. For this instant, I filled it with silica beads.
You may omit the funnel if you are filling it with scented potpourri, use tweezers to fill it instead.
Close the opening by sewing with a slip or ladder stitch.
Shake the bunny so that the ingredients fall to the bottom part.
Tie the ears together with sewing thread, adjust while you pull the thread to gather.
Finally, tie your preferred ribbon or yarn to the thread.
~~Done~~
Hola: acabo de descubrir tu blog y es lo primero q veo m encanto espero hacerlo acá no de festeja así la Pascua, pero igual lo haré vien pronto el cumpleaños de mi hija Janetzy cumple 3 añitos m parece buena idea…. Aunque tienes otra para los souvenirs de la fiesta.? Me encantaría q me dieras una idea.
Felicidades por tus creaciones
Saludos desde León Guanajuato México
Translation (by Goolge):
Hello, I just discovered your blog and it’s the first thing I see, my charm, I hope to do it here, not to celebrate Easter, but I’ll do it soon. My birthday, Janetzy, is 3 years old. It seems like a good idea …. Although you have another one for the souvenirs of the party.? I would love to have an idea. Congratulations for your creations Greetings from Leon Guanajuato Mexico
Super cute! Another idea would be for fabric weights. Fill with fine sand…great for holding down patterns on fabric!
Great idea,Sandi 🙂
LOVE those sweet sachets! And LOVE those adorable shoes, as well? Who makes those shoes?!
They are Birkenstock Shoes
adorei eu adoro faser esse tipo de artesãnato e muito bonito e criatvo
Translation (by Google):
loved I love doing this kind of craftsmanship is very beautiful and criatvo
merci beaucoup
bonne année
LM
Translation (by Google):
thank you very much
happy New Year
LM
Merci beaucoup pour ce tuto ! J’ai réalisé les petits lapins et je les ai remplis de lavande. Un article paraîtra sur mon blog à ce sujet, demain.
Bonne soirée
Translation (by Google):
Thank you very much for this tutorial! I made the bunnies and I filled with lavender. Published an article on my blog about it tomorrow.
Have a nice evening
Hi Joanne! I’d like to share my recent amigurumi project with you. It’s the all-time favourite Japanese anime character Doraemon. Hope you like it.
http://www.ladycraftyfingers.com/doraemon/
This is cute!!!! I read Doraemon comic during my childhood 🙂
Thank you so much for such a sweet idea…I made these as thank you gifts and they were very well received.
These are too cute and so easy to put together,have fun showing them off,,
Wow! Everything you make is so beautiful! I wanted to let you know that I featured you in this round up at: http://printabelle.com/?p=1709 If you would like a featured button, I have one here on my About page: http://printabelle.com/?page_id=724
Thanks!
Muito Fofo!!
Muito delicado.
Abraços
Translation (by Google):
Very Cute! Very delicate. hugs
So cute!
I love this project. Simple but so beautiful! I am brasilian, and my english arent’t very good, but i just came here to say thank you for share this with us! I make a post ate my blog, and translate the tutorial to portuguese, if you don’t mind. I Would be very happy if you visit me:
http://1001dicasdeartesanato.wordpress.com
thank you!
Спасибо большое!У Вас очень интересный сайт и мастер-класс замечательный!Удачи Вам!
Translation (by Google):
Thank you very much! You have a very interesting site and a wonderful master class and good luck to you!
i made mine just now. it’s still not perfect but i’ll try making some more. thankyou! 😀
These are so cute and easy, i made them for a space filler for my friends’ present, i made a few for me too!
Thanks for this cute idea
Have a good sunday
i was wondering where you buy your silica gel at.?
I got it from pet department store, it is an absorbent material for cat little. Some grocery store might sell it too.
Can you tell me the brand you use.?
I’ve been looking and i can’t seem to find any.
Thank you. =D
i loved the shoes!!!! How can i make to get this shoes???? kisses bye bye
Oh how adorable are these?? And that mini rose fabric!!! I’ll never ever be able to find that….sigh. It’s just beautiful. I’d love to know if you remember Ü
Thanks so much!
I bought that fat quarter from a quilt shop.
Très mignons ces petits lapins!
Pâques est fini mais je vais les faire garnis de lavande pour continuent à gambader dans mes armoires
A bientôt
Translation (by Google):
These cute little bunnies!
Easter is over but I’ll be filled with lavender to continue to frolic in my cabinets
Soon
I love lavender 🙂 ohhh so nice!!!
waw!beautiful. i really like those bunny <3
I love these!!! I am making a bunch of them for Easter… hand sewn. I wish i had a machine… but im only 12 haha…
anyway, enough of my sob story 😉 great pattern and tuts! 🙂
Glad to know that I have another young reader 🙂 I learned sewing with machine around this age where my mom supervised me over her old paddle unit. Catch up the good job with craft yay 🙂
It´s so lovely!! The Easter is comming soon, but I will have time yet to do this. It´s quick and a beautifull gift.
Thanks!
thanks for this tutorial.
now i made some of them myself. and i really like them!
best regards, doro K.
Just wanted to thank you for the great pattern. I made about 100 little bunnies and put them into recycled egg cartons and gave them to friends at work. Everyone loved them!
Fantastic! So simple and so cute! Thanks so much for sharing!
These are adorable! I’m loving them. I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com.
These are so cute…I just want to make a whole bowl full of them! I’m including them in my Friday Favorites this week!
I was so excited to try this, just in time for Easter! But – I’m having a really tough time sewing the tight curves for the ears on my sewing machine. Any tips?
Use shorter stitch length and sew slowly will do the trick 🙂 Good luck!
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I am glad to be featured in We All Sew. Thanks!
Que linda idéia, amamos…uma gracinha, teu blog é o máximo! Visite o nosso, será um prazer…beijão!
Translation (by Google):
What a lovely idea, love … a cute, your blog is awesome! Visit our will be a pleasure … XOXO!
Cute!!!Thanks for sharing!
Kisses
Sue
What a wonderful idea and tutorial! Thank you so much! I’ve already tried it. If you would like to have a look at what I made from it:
http://streuterklamotte.blogspot.com/2011/03/erstes-osterhaschen.html
Once again, thank you for sharing!
Sabine
Welldone, Sabine!!!!
I love the idea of filling it with the silica beads. I think I’m gonna make a couple for in my jewelry box! Where can I find silica beads? I didn’t know they came in anything but jel 🙂
Thanks!
Silica gel comes in beads form and sometimes many misunderstood that it is in gel form due to its name. If you can’t get it in any store, try pet shop, they do have silical gel (beads form) for managing “cat little”.
Love this idea and your tutorials are some of the most informative I’ve seen. Thanks so much for sharing!
Que lindos esses saches!! Seu trabalho é maravilhoso,Parabens!
Vou fazer alguns para a Páscoa que está chegando.
Muito obrigada.
Helô
Translation (by Google):
How beautiful these sachets! Your work is wonderful, Congratulations!
I’ll make some for Easter is coming.
Thank you.
Helo
Happy Easter!!!
Thanks for sharing these! So cute!
Ola, Sou do Brasil e adorei Seu Blog Que ESTA Bolão batento hum ….
Bjxs
Translation (by Google):
Hello, I’m from Brazil and I loved your blog that is beating Bozo hum …. Bjxs
Welcome to Craft Passion 🙂
So clever…thanks for sharing!!
Adorei seu site, tudo é muito lindo e bem explicado…
obrigada
Translation (by Google):
I loved your site, everything is very beautiful and well explained …
thanks
Thank you, Norma Silveira. Welcome to Craft Passion 🙂
This is the cutest!!
These is so cute! I also admire the shoes ! haha….
Thanks, Alice. It is Birkis (just in case you want to know), a very comfortable sandals.
Just adorable! Thanks for sharing! I’ve posted a link and yours has made this week’s top 10 most popular, and will be featured in this week’s newsletter! Great job!
Thanks, Sheri! Glad to be on your news letter and your top 10 list 🙂
It is very cute! ^^ Instead of filling it with gel, could I fill in something else? ….. like instance, I could fill the bunny with cotton and use it as embroidery?? or…. I could make it flat and sew it onto a bag or something…. ??
Anything is possible, Pei Cing 🙂 Sew it on the bag should be very cute, great idea!
So simple, sweet and useful! I love these! I wanted to let you know that I submitted this to the M&T Spotlight: http://www.makeandtakes.com/spotlight
Thanks for sharing in your site 🙂
It so cuteee!! 🙂
Thanks, Ayu!
How cute is this!!! You could even put rice in them and heat them up and use them as handwarmers or a boo bunny!
You are absolutely right!!!
So cute! I think I have to make some of these, fill them with lavender and find a home for them in my drawers (though they are actually too cute to live in drawers… we’ll see!)
How about make a dozen of them and string them into a garland, should pretty to display in your house instead of the drawer 🙂
merci c est genial bises ma belle jojo
Translation (by Google):
thank you c is genial kisses my lovely jojo
Thank you very mutch for these nice pattern!
Gretings Marion
You are most welcome, Marion!
Found your tutorial via Pinterest – love it! Love your blog!!
Thanks, happy zombie, love your name!
These are so sweet! Great idea to use them as dessicant sachets. I’d love to make them for pattern weights as well. Happy Year of the Rabbit!
Pattern weight is a great idea!!!! I will have to make some soon for that.
Awe…these little bunnies melted my heart <3…so super cute! My three year old heard me gasp when I first opened the page and came running to see what cute craft I happened to find this time and she said ohhh….those are so cute hoppers!
I am so glad to know this 🙂
These are sooooo cute!!! they’d also make awesome pattern weights.
I linked to your tutorial over at Craft Gossip Sewing:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-bitty-bunny-sachet-or-pattern-weight/2011/02/05/
–Anne
Thanks, Anne 🙂
Those are so cute. They will make great additions to Easter baskets this year.
You are absolutely right… make them for the Easter!!!!
Que lindo!!! y super facil!!!
Muchas gracias 🙂
Besos
Translation (by Google):
So cute! and super easy!
Thank you very much:)
Besos
Yeah, Doris, you are right, super easy and super fast to complete!